Worthless United Nations security contingent
I posted this years ago but I see it's gone so I am going to rewrite it.
Did anyone get pissed off at the end of the movie when the U.S. Army survivors and the Delta Force struggle to reach the safety of the United Nations security compound, commanded by an appointed Pakistani general.
The Pakistani general angrily commands the compound soldiers not to get involved and not to go outside to rescue the Americans. The Somali 'skinnys' are right behind them. Only when the Americans reach the very gates of the compound does the Pakistani general order the doors opened to allow the bedraggled Americans inside. Inside, the Americans are finally safe. Only if the 'skinnys' attempt to forcibly enter the compound will they get shot at.
Initially I was real angry at the worthless, spineless Pakistani general but upon retrospect, he was only following orders from the United Nations security high command. So it really wasn't his fault. But I was still pissed at the United Nations for being totally spineless, backboneless, and worse, only pretending to intervene in a country at civil war by just about throwing the Americans under the bus. This is why so many UN critics today mock the UN as a paper institution.
President Bush (the elder) was reluctant for good reasons to intervene in the Somali civil war. But he was so pressured by the American media moguls who published front page newspapers demanding the U.S. intervene and the Democrats that he reluctantly gave in and sent the Marines and then smaller U.S. Army contingents who were immediately outnumbered and attacked.
All America did was unite the Somali factions and the people against a 'common' invader, albeit temporarily. Once the television screens showed the Somali city people dragging the dead body of a near-nude Marine helicopter pilot through the main streets of Mogadishu, American public, political, and media support for the Somalis collapsed...totally. New President Clinton wisely pulled every American serviceman out fast. No one in America complained. Somalia dropped off the television news and the chagrined newspapers just as fast. The Somalis almost immediately went back at each other's throats. There was some news, unsubstantiated, that there were people in Somalia who understood their mistake and wanted the Americans to return. Somalia changed American foreign policy. The U.S. became hesitant of foreign intervention. The exception was the U.S. intervention in the former Yugoslavia, due to the urgent cries for help from the European governments. This was ultimately successful. The next President, George Bush, expressed his desire to focus on internal American matters and refrain from foreign entanglements. OH, BY THE WAY, THE BUSH-HATERS conveniently forgot about that. The European governments openly expressed their fear that America would withdraw its intervention from the apocalypse that was the Yugoslavian civil wars and genocide. OH, BY THE WAY, the European Bush-haters conveniently forgot that.
Then came 9/11, and President Bush switched his attention from internal matters to revenge in Afghanistan and then nation-building in Iraq after Saddam Hussein broke the 1991 Desert Storm armistice agreement. OH, BY THE WAY, people forgot about that, too. I will admit, however, that Afghanistan and Iraq, failed, despite America's best efforts and billions of dollars
The left wing democrats and the Europeans started screaming their hatred of George Bush as a cowboy meddler in other countries, and succeeded in changing the history books. To this day, Bush is highly despised in the United Kingdom, only behind the German emperor William Kaiser of WWI and Adolf Hitler of WWII, and just before Napoleon Bonaparte. Half of the American population have been taught to hate and despise Bush, too, which remains today.